Welcome to the TD next Community! We’re excited to have some helpful, interesting and engaging conversations here on the boards. As you get started, please take a minute to look over some guidelines for getting the most out of the forums.

First, a few notes on what we expect from community members:

Play nice. People are trying to help, so there’s no need for attitude or general rudeness.

Politeness will beat terseness every day of the week

Give the community a little bit of time to answer your question – the person with the best answer may be on the other side of the world and asleep at the time you post.

Help create an easy to use forum – do your best to avoid redundancy, to clearly identify your questions for others to search for later, and help create a general atmosphere of learning, trust and excitement to create.

How to use the TD next community when you have a question:

Step 1: Create an account

You can do this through our site or by connecting to one of a variety of existing accounts

Step 2: Search the forums before asking your question.

It is entirely possible that someone else has run into the same issue you’re facing – check to see if they’ve posted it or a very similar question in the past before starting your own thread. This will help us all avoid redundancy and make it easier to find the answers we’re looking for…

Step 3: Ask a question or start a topic

Click +Create Topic at the upper right hand corner

Step 4: Create a searchable subject line

Make it easy for others who have the same question to find your thread later

Bad subject lines: “Help!” “I’ve got a question” “Keep seeing error”

Good subject lines: “First time power up” “Receiving error message S4D” “How do I integrate Twitter into my TD next application?”

Step 5: Use proper sentences

Technical jargon is totally fine but let’s all do our best to type out questions and avoid text message language, cool? Cool.

Step 6: What to include in your message

If you reference an error message include that exact message

Identify what you’re really trying to do, not just the step you’re hitting a snag on – someone in the community may have a way for you to skip that step altogether, but they need to know what you’re doing!

If you’re using an important library or language that is not standard to TD next product be sure to identify it and possibly point people to a place they can download and install it themselves.

Step 7: Post your messageIt feels like there should be more to say here, but really this one is fairly self-explanatory.